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Bharat Ratna Award Padma Awards Gallantry Awards Dhyan Chand Award Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awards Arjuna Award Dronacharya Award Sahitya Academi Award Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Jnanpith Award Dada Saheb Phalke Award
Bharat Ratna
Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian honor, given for exceptional service towards advancement of Art, Literature and Science, and in recognition of Public Service of the highest order.
Established by : Rajendra Prasad, President of India. Date: 2 January 1954. Who is Eligible: No formal provision that recipients of
the Bharat Ratna should be Indian citizens, this seems to have been the general assumption.
In 2011, the Government of India modified the eligibility criteria to allow sportspersons to receive the award and opened the award for performance of highest order in any field of human Endeavour from for the highest degrees of national service. This service includes artistic, literary, and scientific achievements, as well as "recognition of public service of the highest order."
PADMA AWARDS
Padma Awards, the countrys highest civilian awards, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year. The Awards are given in all disciplines/ fields of activities, viz. art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports , civil service, etc. They consists of a medal and a citation and are awarded by the President of India. This year the President has approved 109 awards including one duo case(counted as one) and 14 in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/PIOs/Posthumous. These comprise 5 Padma Vibhushan, 27 Padma Bhushan and 77 Padma Shri Awards. There are 19 ladies among the awardees.
NOMINATION Nomination for the award Is open to all. It Is the practice to invite nominations of the award every year from all StatelUT governments, Central Ministries/Departments, Institutes of Excellence and Bharat Ratna and Padma Vlbhushan awardees. The Padma Awards Committee is constituted by the Prime Minister every year. The Committee scrutinizes all nominations recommendations placed before it and makes its recommendations for approval of the competent authority. The basis of selection is the body of work of the individual in any given field and a view is taken in respect of each nomination by the Padma Awards Committee. No Padma award is conferred except on the recommendation of the Padma Awards Committee.
CATEGORIES
Padma Vibhushan: Padma Vibhushan is awarded for exceptional and distinguished Service.
GALLANTRY AWARDS
Vir Chakra Valor (WAR TIME) Awards
The Param Vir Chakra(PVC) is India's highest military decoration awarded for the highest degree of valour or selfsacrifice in the presence of the enemy. It can be, and often has been, awarded posthumously.
Last Time Awardees: 1999 1. IC-56959 Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey 2. 2690572 Grenadier Yogendra Singh Yadav 3. 13760533 Rifleman Sanjay Kumar 4. IC-57556 Captain Vikram Batra
Maha Vir Chakra The Maha Vir Chakra(MVC) is the second highest military decoration in India and is awarded for acts of conspicuous gallantry in the presence of the enemy, whether on land,at sea or in the air. Last Time Awardees: 1999 1. Maj. Vivek Gupta, 2 Rajputana Rifles 2. Maj. Padmapani Acharya, 2 Rajputana Rifles 3. Capt. Anuj Nayyar, 17 Jat Reg
Vir Chakra
Vir Chakra(Vr.C.) is an Indian gallantry award presented for acts of bravery in the battlefield. It is third in precedence in the war time gallantry awards and comes after the Param Vir Chakra and Maha Vir Chakra. Last Time Awardees: 1999 1. Sub Raghunath Singh 2. Maj. Vivek Gupta, 2 Rajputana Rifles 3. Maj. Padmapani Acharya, 2 Rajputana Rifles
Kirti Chakra
The Kirti Chakra is an Indian military decoration awarded for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice away from the field of battle. It may be awarded to civilians as well as military personnel, including posthumous awards. It is the peacetime equivalent of the Maha Vir Chakra. It is second in order of precedence of peacetime gallantry awards; it comes after Ashoka Chakra and before Shaurya Chakra. Before 1967, the award was known as the Ashoka Chakra, Class II. Last Time Awardees: 2011 1. Maj Kumandur Prabhakar Vinay (P) 2. Maj Subhash Chand Punia 3. Sep Suresh (P)
Shaurya Chakra
The Shaurya Chakra is an Indian military decoration awarded for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice while not engaged in direct action with the enemy. It may be awarded to civilians as well as military personnel, sometimes posthumously. It is the peacetime equivalent of the Vir Chakra. It is generally awarded for Counter-Insurgency operations and actions against the enemy during peace-time. It is third in order of precedence of peacetime gallantry awards and comes after the Ashoka Chakra and the Kirti Chakra. It precedes the Sena Medal. Before 1967, the award was known as the Ashoka Chakra, Class III.
Lakshmikant
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (RGKR) is Indias highest honour given for achievement in sports. The words "Khel Ratna" literally mean "sports gem" in Hindi. The award is named after the late Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India. It carries a medal, a scroll of honour and a substantial cash component. Up to 200405, the cash component was Rs. 500,000/- (c.11,500 USD).The money has been increased from Rs. 500,000 to Rs. 750,000.
Arjuna Award
The Arjuna Awards were instituted in 1961 by the government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in National sports. The award carries a cash prize of 500,000, a bronze statuette of Arjuna and a scroll. The Government has recently revised the scheme for the Arjun Award. As per the revised guidelines, to be eligible for the Award, a sportsperson should not only have had good performance consistently for the previous three years at the international level with excellence for the year for which the Award is recommended, but should also have shown qualities of leadership, sportsmanship and a sense of discipline.
Last Time Awardees: 2011 1. Rahul Banerjee , Archery 2. Preeja Sreedharan , Atheletics 3. Jwala Gutta , Badminton 4. Suranjoy Singh , Boxing 5. Zaheer Khan , Cricket 6. Sunil Chettri , Football 7. Ashish Kumar , Gymnastics 8. Rajpal Singh , Hockey 9. Rakesh Kumar , Kabaddi 10. Somdev Dewarman, Lawn Tennis 11. Tejaswini Sawant , Shooting 12. Virdhawal Khade , Swimming 13. Sanjay Kumar , Volleyball 14. Ravindra Singh , Wrestling
Dronacharya Award
Dronacharya Award is an award presented by the government of India for excellence in sports coaching. The award comprises a bronze statuette of Dronacharya , a scroll of honour and a cash component of Rs.500,000. The award was instituted in 1985. As the best sportsperson award is named Arjuna Award, it is appropriate that the coaching award is named after Dronacharya, as he was the Guru of Arjuna.
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Inukurthi Venketeshwara Rao , Boxing Devender Kumar Rathore , Gymnastics Ramphal , Athletics Kuntal Roy , Athletics Rajinder Singh , Hockey
Jnanpith Award
The Jnanpith Award is a literary award in India. Along with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, it is one of the two most prestigious literary honours in the country. The award was instituted in 1961. Any Indian citizen who writes in any of the officiallanguages of India is eligible for the honour. It is presented by the Bhartiya Jnanpith, a trust founded by the Sahu Jain family, the publishers of the The Times of India newspaper.
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding Indira Gandhi Peace Prize International Gandhi Peace Prize Pulitzer Prize
Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding is an international award presented by the Government of India. It was founded in 1965 and is administered by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) to people "for their outstanding contribution to the promotion of international understanding, goodwill and friendship among people of the world". The money constituent of this award is 1 crore rupees. Last Time Awardees: U Thant - 1965 Angela Merkel - 2009
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) publisher Joseph Pulitzer, and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of these, each winner receives a certificate and a US$10,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal, which always goes to a newspaper, although an individual may be named in the citation. Last Time Awardee: Siddhartha Mukherjee , , "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer".
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and/or scientific advances. The will of the Swedish philanthropist inventor Alfred Nobel, established the prizes in 1895. The prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace were first awarded in 1901.
Each recipient, or laureate, receives a gold medal, a diploma, and a sum of money which depends on the Nobel Foundation's income that year. As of 2012, each prize was worth 8 million SEK (c. US$1.1 million, 1.16 million).
Awardees In 2011
Year
Physics
Chemistry
Physiology or Medicine
Literature
Peace
Economics
Saul Perlmutter;
2011 Adam G. Riess; Dan Shechtman
Brian Schmidt
Every year the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation grants the prize to Asian individuals and organizations for achieving excellence in their respective fields. The awards are given in six categories: Government Service Public Service Community Leadership Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts Peace and International Understanding Emerging leadership
Awardees In 2011
Year
Government Service
Public Service
Community Leadership
Literature
Peace
Emergent Leadership
Koul Panha
2011-12
Neelima Mishra,
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